Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Scraps Giveaway!

Jodie Nelson, creative blogger at Pleasant Home blog is hosting a humongous quilting scrap giveaway. Jodie has been encouraging her readers to use their scraps. She has posted photos of her method of organizing her scraps, making scrap blocks, projects using scraps. My scraps are "taking over" my sewing room. I do cut scraps into strips for future scrap projects. I enjoy Bonnie Hunter's scrap quilt patterns. Having the strips already cut, is extremely helpful in piecing her scrap projects especially her mystery quilts. The fabric requirements for Roll, Roll Cotton Boll, Bonnie's newest mystery quilt have been posted here. I'm trying to resist beginning this one. I still have the last two mystery projects to complete. I was derailed by those things called borders:)

I also enjoy making string blocks. Making string blocks is pure "pedal to the medal" with machine sewing. It's liberating. Recently, I met with my friend Debbie (no blog) to make string blocks for our guild project for Quilts of Valor. We each cut strips from our red, white, and blue scraps. We sewed, talked, eat and had a blast making these blocks. We were both having a "bad hair day" so no people photos:)

We sewed scraps on 12.5 inch muslin squares. The organizers of this project asked that we not trim the blocks. Much information about string quilts, projects, and donating them can be found on the Heartstrings website.

I am delighted to offer a giveaway of some of my favorite scraps. I got carried away going through my scrap box so I there will be two winners.

I'll pack them up in the small priority mail boxes (on my "to do list" for today). To enter this giveaway, please leave a comment on this post. In your comment, share with me the things you like to do with your scraps. I love reading what other quilters do with their fabric. The giveaway will end on Saturday at noon. I'll use the random number generator to choose the two winners. I'm having oral surgery on Friday. As soon as I can during the weekend, I'll contact the winners. Good luck to everyone. Thanks so very much for visiting my blog!

I am trying to learn ways to use scraps! I am enjoying these posts so much. I have had so much fun using up scraps by making little quilts. I made 3 little star ones and I am using Christmas scraps to make a little house quilt.

I use my scraps for applique, table runners, coasters and am trying out string quilts! I also make my Hexie Caddy using scraps. Look here:http://pennyshands.blogspot.com/2010/08/hexie-caddy-tutorial.htmlSo you see, I can do with more scraps!

Being new to quilting and not really having past experience to draw on, I can only imagine that if I HAD enough scraps, I'd sew them together in strips to make maybe 8 inch blocks similar to what you did with the red, white & blue. Maybe diagonally.

I love scraps and scrappy quilts - my larger pieces get cut into strips, squares and bricks (per Bonnie's advice!). Anything smaller than that goes into a huge tub that I occasionally (more like rarely!) crazy quilt sew onto 10.5 inch foundation squares - the tub is overflowing right now! I really need to get back to doing that more often . . . .

I like to make 2.5 inch scrap squares and save them. Sometimes I make crazy quilt blocks. And I save the tinier pieces for appliqué. Sometimes I make HST too! I would live to win your scraps, they look much bigger than mine!

Hi Becky!Good luck with your surgery on Friday :) I started learning how to do string quilts last year and like you it's on my to do list. I like the way the scrappy colors all seem to fit together once the pieces are put together. I haven't made a whole quilt yet, but it would be fun - especially with someone else's scraps included. Thanks for the chance to win :)

I love how Jodi keeps finding more people like you with such cool blogs to read! My current favorite project for scraps is an addiction... mug rugs! But I also like making wonky stars, and am in the process of finishing a scrap quilt containing stars and scrap blocks from Jodi's tutorial earlier this month. That bright piece on top of your pile is begging to be a mug rug... :)

Love scraps and I am always amazed how great thos pieces look together in the end. I love to make tablerunners and small wallquilts, little bags and at the moment those mugrugs which are so great for using scraps. Want to do some for presents together with a mug for this christmas! Not sure if you would send overseas but thanks for the fun with the give away!

I just joined an online quilting bee, so I'm "collecting" as many scraps as possible to send out during my month since I love scrappy quilts. Not certain yet on what sort of block I'll ask for, and I'm actually considering asking for random blocks from each person.

My scraps are currently sitting in a pile waiting patiently to be put to good use. I have lots of ideas in my head and see lots of fabulous ideas on blogs like yours.Hope your scraps will join mine.barberg@sbcglobal.net

I sm msjorly into scrap quilting. I have two hampers full of scraps and usually take ordinary patterns and see how I can make them scrappy. I am currently hand sewing a GFG quilt using 1.5" hexagons....all scrappy!

Since Christmas is around the corner, I'm thinking about making some scrappy pillow covers in various Christmas themes :) And I'd probably use some of the scraps on the scrappy quilt I'm finally making... and some for Christmas/thank you/love you cards :)thanks for sharing with us!

First my husband is a dentist so hang in there all will be fine! Second right now I am using my Christmas fabrics to make wonky stars a great stash buster. Third thank you for the chance to win your great scraps. and how fun to find a new blog to me!

I use my scraps for smaller projects, like zipper pouches for my two year old son's friends, or applique for t-shirts on special occasions and holidays. I also plan to do a big scrappy quilt using as many scraps as I can at the end of each year!

I've not had much experience with scraps yet because I'm so new to quilting . . . I've got a few little "artsy" quilts running through my brain. I love those red, white and blue string blocks! Thanks for the chance.

After seeing jodi at Pleasant Home's method for making scrap quilts, I was hooked. I've already started one quilt and can't wait to start the next. Your scraps would be very handy. Thanks for the chance to win. Hope your surgery goes well on Friday.

I love string quilts! And I LOVE vintage sewing machines - I spotted one on your table. Anyway, I would use the scraps for projects for the Sewing Circle I started at church. The young girls are always looking for new and fun things to make! Karin

So far, I have only been collecting a few of my scraps. I only recently learned there were so many ways to use them! One of my favorite ideas, that I am looking forward to using, is the Ticker Tape confetti style quilt! The ones I've seen have all been so wonderful :-)

Thank you for hosting such a nice giveaway! I am a new quilter (working on my very first quilt right now!), so I don't have a lot of scraps yet, but I intend to start making hexagons, and really love scrappy quilts. I can't wait to have the stash to get started!

Scraps?!? I can always use scraps either in the plethora of scrappy paper pieing projects I have going or to make a lovely quilt for a wee at risk baby via http://danettesangels.tripod.com I send at least 4 boxes of sweep tiny baby goodies per year and scrap would help fill up another box of preemie and newborn lovies!~Yane

I like to do pretty much everything with my scraps...when it comes to quilting, scrap quilting is my fav. I like how all the different and random fabrics come together and create an amazing end result.

Well, I haven't accumulated enough scraps to make a string quilt - which I really want to try. But with the small ones I have my favorite is stitching them onto small moleskin notebooks to carry with me and give as little gifts you can stick in with a birthday card (and with an extra couple of stamps).

Wow - 2 piles of scraps and 2 winners. I use scraps like others use yardage. I have never bought large pieces of fabric except for backing - and I love to piece my backs. String, inspirational, wonky houses,trees, and stars, postcards and notecards, paperpieced and machine pieced. They all find a perfect home nestled in a quilt.

I have only been quilting for about 6 weeks so don't have too many scraps saved up from the three quilts I've made BUT the scraps that are big enough for it become inchy hexagons! I'm amazed at how fast those little hexies come together and make something out of nothing! :-)

We use scraps to make quilts for our quilt ministry - they go to people in need. Usually it's medical issues, but sometimes it's people just going through a rough path who need encouragement. Oh, yeah and we make quilts for newborns too! Your scraps would definitely have a good home.....

I have a bin of strips I cut but I need to add more flare to them. I would love to have the red polka dot fabric to make something for my daughter (clothing accessories maybe). Plus I use scraps to create girlie purses for all the birthday parties my son is happy to attend (we couldn't attend the only boy party so I lucked out there.) I enjoyed your blog.

A favorite way to use scraps is to do 6" blocks using liberated patchwork (ala Gwen Marston) techniques. I also enjoy any small size blocks, applique or patchwork. And I can use scraps to sew for a benefit holiday sale each year. Your scraps would be a tremendous gift to me!Thanks very much, and good luck with your surgery.

I haven't made enough things to have enough scraps to make anything, but I have seen so many quilts made out of scraps that are so beautiful and would love to make one of my own! Thanks for the giveaway!

First off it's super fun and exciting to open up a package that contains fabric pieces. Even if they are scraps or small pieces, just going thru them and loving them is so exciting. Part of a fabric-a-holics dream I guess. I do lots of things with scraps. Strip circles for rugs, applique, scrappy blocks are just a few.

Thanks for your scrap giveaway. I have learned some neat string quilts from the Heartstring blog. I give my string quilts to our Cancer Treatment Center for patients. I would put your scraps in my love quilts.

I'd love to play with your scraps. I am a relatively new quilter and don't have that many scraps of my own. I'd like to use them for decorating things like little girls purses, and bibs etc to make for our school's bazaar.

Hey there. I tend to use my scraps for applique but with Jodi's influence I am seeing that I would like to start using them for some patching:) Your lovely scraps would be warmly welcomed by my wee scraps! Ciao

I recently came out of my "comfort zone" and have started paper-piecing. And scraps will be helpful for those. And I love scrap quilts. And having your scraps in there, what a wonderful thing to do, to be able to look at my new quilt (or paper-pieced project) and know some of the scraps came from your giveaway. Thanks for participating in this giveaway...that's so generous of you. And good luck with your oral surgery. I hope you come through with sailing colors.

Scrap quilts are my favorite thing to make, but I also enjoy embellishing my daughter's clothes with them and making scrappy table toppers and placemats...anything scrappy looks well loved and warm, even if you just made it yesterday! Good luck with your oral surgery and thx for the giveaway!

Thanks for the chance to enter. I am having fun making pincushions from scraps at the moment. I have several friends who are just recently adopting craft hobbies and two nieces who are showing real flair for the creative, so any scraps to add to this project would be wonderful.

Right now I like using scraps for paper piecing. But when I get more variety in my scraps, I want to make a scrappy quilt. I really like the way they look. I like Bonnie Hunter's system as well. I also love Jan Karon's books. Thanks for the giveaway.

Thanks for the chance to win. Recently I cut scraps from 1" up to 3" strips. My intention is to make a scrap quilt out of it when I have enough. If half yards are considered as scraps... Gosh! Then I don't know how much scrap I have - lol!

Wow, the only thing I like more than my scraps is other people's scraps LOL. I'd love to win some of yours.

As far as what I would do with them...well, just about anything, but I do really love string quilts, so that would be a top the list, but I also cut my scraps into squares and strips and use those for projects as well.

Pick me! Pick me! Those are gorgeous scraps...how can you part with them?!?But if you are willing to give them, I am happily willing to sew them into a quilt :) Thank you for your generosity!Good luck with your dental surgery this week. As you recover I hope you will be dreaming about the mystery and decide to join in the fun! The more the merrier!

Would love to make a scrappy quilt. I haven't really done anything with my scraps yet, except hoard them, saving them for when I have enough to make a scrappy quilt (I am a new quilter, so don't have many scraps yet). Thanks for the chance to win.

I love scraps. they are a continuationg of the quilting philosphy ... sharing and saving fabrics. Scraps from a friend always add a different dimension to a quilt ... no two people ever pick the same fabrics.

I love to make string quilts, wonky stars, Dresden plates, hexagons and bow tie quilts out of scraps...the scrappier the better! I would LOVE to win some lovely 'fresh' scraps!! :o)Take care and thanks for the chance to win!Paulette

I love to make toys with fabric and little quilt for kids in the hospitals.Also for my family and friends. I am Brazilian living in Alaska, I would love to get some fabric to start new projects for this hard core winter. Work for school I do not make enough to afford pay bills and buy wonderful fabric ti keep my project with the kids up. fingers crossed :Dwww.brasilhawaii.com

First off, good luck with your surgery, I hope all goes well. I am collecting scraps for a postage stamp quilt that takes over 4500 different fabrics, and I am almost there, a few hundred short! That is what I'd do with these lovely scraps.

OOOOhhhhh....love the scraps! Since I'm new to scraps, I don't know exactly what to do with them. However, I did make a table runner out of scraps my mom brought over. I LOVED the challenge of figuring out what goes with what. Right now, I like cutting squares and rectangles.

I love to use my scraps in all of my sewing and quilting projects. I hate to think of a little piece of lovely fabric not having a home in a quilt or something!! My favorite kind of quilt to make is a scrap quilt, so I would use the scraps for one of my projects.

I make quilts for children in foster care. Many of them are taken from their homes with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Having something to call their very own is special to them. Thank you for the giveaway.snuginmyden@yahoo.com

I use my scraps for play therapy with my kids. My two youngest have speech delays so we play with scraps that we buildings and mountains that brave knights ride over to save the world. I also put them in a box buy size of scrap and when my oldest isn't playing he comes in to my sewing area and sits down next to me and matches up all the scraps and then folds them and counts them and asks questions we spend bonding time together... And he loves it...that is how he learned his numbers and colors.

But I use them also for bibs and for scrap rugs and for fabric toys for my friends and their kids....

While I don't really have scraps, I use my leftover fabrics from blocks in my borders and binding. For example, I used the parts cut off my large paper-pieced fan blocks to make minature fan blocks for my border. Also was a necessity because didn't have enough Oriental themed fabric to make the suggested border. Result -- pieces leftover are irregular half inch bits. I raw edge sewed those that were not ravelling on a 6x6 fabric - almost had enough to cover. One day may make a card. Result - nothing left. Thanks for the giveaway.

OOh, I like your string project! Right now, with two new granddaughters being born this summer (cousins, not twins) I am busy making everything from quilts to embellished onesies to fabric baby shoes. Those beautiful scraps would get a workout at this grandma's house!

I like to cut my scraps into squares or half-square triangles, then use pairs of them as "on-ramps" and "off-ramps" to keep my thread from going down into my machine and making a tangle...then I snip them off and drop them into a bag. Then when I have a bagful, I can easily make a scrap quilt for one of the charities my church supports.

I really like scrap quilts and the scrappier the better. My latest quilt is a King-sized Irish Chain with an applique flower vine (applique part not done yet). I could use your scraps to finish the vine and flowers.

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